Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.